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Destroy the elements of the parameterized `TARGET_TYPE` in the array starting at the specified `first` address and ending immediately before the specified `middle` address, and move the elements in the array starting at `middle` and ending at the specified `last` address down to the `first` address. If an assignment throws an exception during this process, all of the elements in the range `[ first, last )]` will have unspecified but valid values, and no elements are destroyed. The behavior is undefined unless `first <= middle <= last`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslalg_arrayprimitives.h>`

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template<class TARGET_TYPE>
static
void
erase(
    TARGET_TYPE* first,
    TARGET_TYPE* middle,
    TARGET_TYPE* last,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslma/Allocator.adoc[bslma::Allocator]* allocator = 0);
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